Happiness is one of the most important things in life, yet it's also one of the hardest to study.Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger is the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest and most complete studies of adult life ever conducted. Waldinger described some of the secrets to happiness revealed by the study in a recent TED talk.The study followed two cohorts of white men for 75 years, starting in 1938:•268 Harvard sophomores as part of the "Grant Study" led by Harvard psychiatrist George Vaillant•456 12- to 16-year-old boys who grew up in inner-city Boston as >>>

Arabs in Israel are suffering an acute shortage of clinical psychologists and Joint List MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad) says she has found the solution.“It is important for Arabs to have access to Arab psychologists because of language and cultural differences that can impede proper treatment,” Zoabi told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.For example, if an eight-year old Arab child rape victim does not speak Hebrew, the psychologist will not be able to optimally treat the patient, she explained. There can be a six-month wait to see an >>>

3. Get intrinsically motivated.  Why do you want to break or make a habit? What is it about the goal you've set for yourself that makes it so important to you? When you start a self-improvement project, it's important to make sure you're doing it for the right reasons.  A study published in January in the Journal of Clinical Psychology finds that one of the best predictors of whether you'll achieve a goal is your motivation. "Think about your reasons for setting your goal,"said Emily Mailey, assistant professor of kinesiology at Kansas State University and one of the study's authors, in a statement. >>>

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